Coffee Talk

Read this from somewhere and found it rather meaningful.

A group of alumni highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. The conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life.......Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and assortments of cups-porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite - telling them to help themselves to hot coffee.When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand the professor said." if you noticed all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. It is but normal to want the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress. What all of you really wanted was coffee and not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups and were eyeing each other's cups."Now if life is coffee and the jobs, money, position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold life but the quality of life does not change. Sometimes by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee in it. So don't let the cups drive you....enjoy the coffee instead."